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“Golden Sand Mantra”
Zaxi found a Tibetan-style bracelet made of gold sand at a second-hand stall in Barkhor Street, Lhasa. The old yak rope was strung with seven gold beads engraved with scriptures. The stall owner was a one-eyed old man, who whispered: “This is a bracelet made by a sky burial master. It can help the dead souls to be reborn, but every time it is used, one gold bead will be lost.”

Zaxi thought it was just a legend until he was camping by Lake Namtso, when the bracelet suddenly became hot. In the moonlight, he saw a little girl in a Tibetan robe standing in the middle of the lake. It was the daughter of the tourist who disappeared three years ago. The seven gold beads began to break one by one, and with each break, the girl took a step closer to the shore. When the last gold bead disappeared, the girl turned into a ray of golden light and dissipated, leaving only a faded old rope by the lake.

Back in Lhasa, Tashi found that the stall of the one-eyed old man had been abandoned for many years. The locals told him: “That was the position of a sky burial master. After he saved the last soul seven years ago, he disappeared.”

(The meaning of the Shajin Tibetan bracelet: saving others and saving yourself, the most precious salvation often requires self-sacrifice)